Welcome to the ICTs in English Resources page. The purpose of the this page is to share professional reading (and viewing) around e-learning and provide an index of links for useful online and ICT resources.
If you would like to recommend a link, please email it to: chris.mclean@core-ed.org
along with a brief description of how you used the resource and why you think it is useful.
Professional Viewing
An Open Letter to Educators
Education today and tomorrow
Professional Reading
Technology a key tool in writing instruction
Students should have an opportunity to write for a real audience and collaborate on writing projects, experts say—and the internet can help.
From Allanah King: I have used Voicethread as a means for children to receive oral feedback on things like speeches which has proved to be an effective way killing two birds with one stone- rehearsed and crafted speech making and giving and receiving feed back, as well sharing our learning effectively with our parent body by posting on the blog as well http://voicethread.com/share/586604/
From Janice Wiri: At my last school I used voice thread as a way to share oral language, and to peer assess oral language activities. This was a sole charge school. The following is a link to a blog post I made in 2008, and has three examples. http://janiceww.blogspot.com/2008/06/voice-threads.html
2. Student voice as part of feedback and teacher inquiry: How is my teaching impacting on my students?
- Interviews amongst the class, captured on e.g. Garageband, Audacity, Voicethread... - anonymous survey (e.g. SurveyMonkey) - quick feedback on how far they understand a lesson or a unit (e.g. Wallwisher www.wallwisher.com)
3. Student voice as part of building on prior knowledge and making connections to form learning goals/success criteria: How can we find out what each student already knows - and doesn't know? - Del.ici.ous, Evernote, Google Reader, RSS aggregators: gather links and related items on a topic - Fins out what they know or don;'t know wth a survey (e.g. SurveyMonkey, Google forms) - Construct a visual representation of connections they can make to key concepts (e.g. Inspiration www.inspiration.com/) - Discussion related to key concepts can be neatly captured in well-chosen images (e.g. Google Images / Flickr Creative Commons) - What we know now, what we'd like to know, what we've learned - accumulating commentary as a unit progresses (e.g. wikis/Googlewave, Inspiration...)
Text Related Resources
Cybersafety
NetSafe has received a number of queries lately about social networking sites and how to manage the use of them in an educational context. We have developed a draft discussion document that highlights some of the issues schools are facing. Access the discussion document here <http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/social-networking-for-schools/>
http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/social-networking-for-schools/ We are seeking your ideas and suggestions to help develop a final version of the document that will be meaningful to NZ educators. You are welcome to pass this invitation onto others. All comments are welcome.
If you would like to recommend a link, please email it to: chris.mclean@core-ed.org
along with a brief description of how you used the resource and why you think it is useful.
Professional Viewing
An Open Letter to Educators
Education today and tomorrow
Professional Reading
Technology a key tool in writing instruction
Students should have an opportunity to write for a real audience and collaborate on writing projects, experts say—and the internet can help.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/07/18/technology-a-key-tool-in-writing-instruction/
e-Learning and implications for New Zealand schools: a literature review
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ict/77614/
Author: Noeline Wright
Published: July 2010
Literacy Teaching and Learning in e –Learning Contexts
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ict/77144
Author: Sue McDowall for CORE Education and New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Published: June 2010
100 Inspiring ways to use social media in the classroom
http://www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1221
10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2009/11/10-teacher-development-task-for-web-20.html
Useful Tools
Twitter
From Fiona Grant and Software for Learning:Software for Learning - Twitter - just for your PLN or can it support student learning?
http://softwareforlearning.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/24031049
Jacqui Sharp created this useful http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/twitter-i-just-dont-get-it?from=ss_embed
More on my twitter links
http://delicious.com/f.grant/twitter
The Twitter Experiment
Voice Thread
From Allanah King:
I have used Voicethread as a means for children to receive oral
feedback on things like speeches which has proved to be an effective
way killing two birds with one stone- rehearsed and crafted speech
making and giving and receiving feed back, as well sharing our
learning effectively with our parent body by posting on the blog as well
http://voicethread.com/share/586604/
From Janice Wiri:
At my last school I used voice thread as a way to share oral language, and to peer assess oral language activities. This was a sole charge school.
The following is a link to a blog post I made in 2008, and has three
examples.
http://janiceww.blogspot.com/2008/06/voice-threads.html
Cellphones
Follow this link to check out the Campbell Live story about Howick College's use of Cellphones on Classroom.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Howick-College-embraces-cell-phone-technology/tabid/367/articleID/161603/Default.aspx
From Malcolm Law:
O Brave New World or texting and the teacher of language arts.
http://geekstroke.wordpress.com/
Effective Pedagogy
Student Voice
From Karen Melhuish:1. Student voice as part of self-assessment: How well did each student think they are meeting the success criteria?
- e-portfolios http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-stories/School-stories/Albany-SHS-vision-and-values
- reflective journal (blog/wiki) [http://keycompetencies.tki.org.nz/Monitoring]
- digital story to show progression [http://wsfcsintouch.blogspot.com/2010/04/learning-power-of-digital-storytelling.html]
2. Student voice as part of feedback and teacher inquiry: How is my teaching impacting on my students?
- Interviews amongst the class, captured on e.g. Garageband, Audacity, Voicethread...
- anonymous survey (e.g. SurveyMonkey)
- quick feedback on how far they understand a lesson or a unit (e.g. Wallwisher www.wallwisher.com)
3. Student voice as part of building on prior knowledge and making connections to form learning goals/success criteria: How can we find out what each student already knows - and doesn't know?
- Del.ici.ous, Evernote, Google Reader, RSS aggregators: gather links and related items on a topic
- Fins out what they know or don;'t know wth a survey (e.g. SurveyMonkey, Google forms)
- Construct a visual representation of connections they can make to key concepts (e.g. Inspiration www.inspiration.com/)
- Discussion related to key concepts can be neatly captured in well-chosen images (e.g. Google Images / Flickr Creative Commons)
- What we know now, what we'd like to know, what we've learned - accumulating commentary as a unit progresses (e.g. wikis/Googlewave, Inspiration...)
Text Related Resources
Cybersafety
NetSafe has received a number of queries lately about social networking sites and how to manage the use of them in an educational context. We have developed a draft discussion document that highlights some of the issues schools are facing.
Access the discussion document here <http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/social-networking-for-schools/>
http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/social-networking-for-schools/
We are seeking your ideas and suggestions to help develop a final version of the document that will be meaningful to NZ educators. You are welcome to pass this invitation onto others. All comments are welcome.